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“This person only shares certain information with everyone”: Dealing with challenges of access in designing research for investigating online bullying in children’s accounts of using social media

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posted on 2023-05-24, 19:14 authored by Justin CantyJustin Canty, Stubbe, M, Steers, D, Collings, S
Researching with children and researching online interactions present an array of methodological and method challenges for research design related to accessing the scenes of interest. Barriers to access can be categorised as technological and ethical. Although visibility and permanence are noted characteristics of social media, there are a range of strategies available to users, including children, for hiding their interactions from public view, thus creating a technological barrier. One option is to focus on publicly accessible data however this offers only a limited insight into the range of children’s social interactions on social media. Another option is to ‘lurk’ or use an assumed identity, which increases access to some (but not all) interactions of potential interest. These in turn contribute to ethical barriers, especially in terms of deception and informed consent for data to be used in research. Children are often specifically identified as a vulnerable population, and as a result the ethical bar is raised even higher in the minds of researchers, parents and other gatekeepers, and research ethics committees.

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Publication title

IIEMCA Conference 2015 - Living the material world

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

IIEMCA

Place of publication

Kolding, Denmark

Event title

IIEMCA Conference 2015 – Living the material world

Event Venue

University of Southern Denmark

Date of Event (Start Date)

2015-08-04

Date of Event (End Date)

2015-08-07

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Children's services and childcare

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